^ Honestly, if I were some random person watching this I would be more like “Huh, what gives these guys the right to practice vigilante justice? They seem like they might be dangerous and I hope someone stops them. With extreme prejudice if necessary.” But, I’m sure the public as a whole would not uniformly react that way.

But you’re right, it’s obvious that they’re calling AEGIS out in the hopes of getting into a fight with them.

^Yeah, I don’t think this is really aimed at the public. Though I doubt the segment that doesn’t trust AEGIS under Will’s leadership – which, thanks to the North Korea incident, is not a small segment of the population – has much of a problem with giving these new protectors a shot.

justvisiting- I’ve still never understood why the North Korea incident would make anything beyong a small section of the public not trust AEGIS under Will, but I guess that we’ve been told It Is So for the purpose of the storyline.

I agree that this move by the Hand is about trying to suck AEGIS in to a conflict in which they will come out looking bad than it is about anything else, though.

I’m going to take a wild guess and say the one with the weird face is ‘Bellhop’, the teleport who got Mektek, Wheaties, and Animal out of the complex back at ‘worse then the disease’. Mektek also mentioned, briefly, a guy named ‘Link’ whom we never saw; gonna assume that’s the dorky-looking one doing all the talking.

Re-looking at the way he has been drawn since he’s been shown I am going to guess that their spokesperson/leader is some kinda animated bronze statue of a average/joe/youcantrustme guy. He might even have REAL super-charisma.